The Watertown Cultural Council is pleased to announce its grant recipients for fiscal year 2018. The Council awarded over $7,600 in grants to eighteen organizations to support music, art, and science. The programs serve Watertown audiences from families, preschoolers and K-12 students to adults and seniors.

FY2018 Grant Recipients

• ArtRelief, Art Lab Facilitator

• David Bates and Roger Tincknell, Imagine That: A Song & Story Celebration

• Watertown High School, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime performance

"This year's WCC grant recipients highlight the range of interests and experiences within our community," says Jonathan Hecht, State Representative for Watertown and Cambridge. "In what has become an increasingly divisive political climate, I'm pleased and proud to share this news of community efforts spanning music, theater, science, and history designed to inform, entertain, inspire, and draw people together. I encourage residents to support as many of these events as possible and offer hearty congratulations to all the applicants!"

Thank you to all who applied and CONGRATULATIONS to those selected!

The Watertown Cultural Council (WCC) is one of 355 Local Cultural Council Programs statewide, funded in large part by the state through the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), and part of the largest grassroots cultural funding network in the nation, annually supporting thousands of community-based projects in the arts, humanities, and sciences. The mission of the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC) is “to promote excellence, access, education and diversity in the arts, humanities and interpretive sciences in order to improve the quality of life for all Massachusetts residents and to contribute to the economic vitality of our communities.”

The Watertown Cultural Council is comprised of volunteer residents with a strong interest in the arts and sciences and a fierce commitment to the cultural enrichment of the Watertown community. To learn more about the application process (It’s never too early to start thinking about your project!) or how to join the Council, please visit the Watertown Cultural Council website at watertownculturalcouncil.org.